Many (1) rent settlements that were too low many as a Tory plan to hold down the more visible housing benefit costs (2) they are hard hit by various grenfell related and other energy efficiency related related requirements that require large capital expenditures when they aren’t taking in enough £.
I’m not sure what you mean? People have different ideas of what BSR reform means sure but genuinely don’t know who you think is hostile to it. I know YIMBYs across the political divide and they all basically despair about BSR and the second stair case stuff. Just both v pointless restrictions.
I honestly don’t know anyone from Yimbyland who doesn’t think the BSR needs real reform but also the government already announced real reform so it’s not really a battle ground issue it’s just consensus that it’s getting done.
Conversely: we can all plainly see what publishers business models are and that’s why there are about 500 Warhammer 40k novels and 200 Star Wars novels.
Authors were just the first generation of the attention economy and mostly were aiming for popular slop to put food on the table just like your average YouTube star.
Authors were just the first generation of the attention economy and mostly were aiming for popular slop to put food on the table just like your average YouTube star.
The way to fix the social housing problems in this country is to allow councils to hike the rent to market rates (or plausibly even higher? on the people who are earning enough to afford it.
Yeah that feels right that prices are not affected but wind farms are not economical at the market price of electricity (and risk) which is why CFDs exist so it feels like any increase in costs has to come back in the CFD (or possibly lower quantity)
Perhaps but surely this just comes back to the wind farm developers in the cfd prices since they will demand a higher minimum price of their costs are higher.
It just all seems a very pointless merry-go-round. Suppose they win? Then the government loses some money that the government could have anyway chosen to use to subsidise wind power and arguably does through the cfd auctions.
I am Scottish and have lived in London for a decade mate. Also I have made nothing up, you are clearly living in fantasy land on this issue I’m afraid.
The real number of vacant homes as a normie would define empty is ~650k of which large numbers are tied up in legal proceedings and many others are uninhabitable. The most you could free up is like ~50k in practice which is trivial.
Buddy I am familiar with all the data. It is completely a myth. There are barely enough vacant homes for housing chains to function for one thing, with average settlement times approaching a year.
For every one of those kids there is another kid forced at best to take on a much longer commute to their job in Westminster. That doesn’t seem fair to me?
Again, why should that matter more to you than a kid in say Wales who can’t come to London for a low income job. (Also low income jobs are barely a thing now, a FT minimum wage puts you into the middle quintile.)
